Just watching an old episode of "The Six Million Dollar Man" on TV.
Original air date was 1st November, 1974. I tend to think they just used dubbed in sound effects, but it almost matches a "quiet I/O" to an Atari disk drive.
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Sound familiar ?
Started by Rybags, Oct 5 2011 9:20 AM
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Posted Wed Oct 5, 2011 9:36 AM
cool... and the disc drive or terminal looks like an 810 from the back.
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Posted Wed Oct 5, 2011 12:26 PM
Heh... "Give us time Barney, I know we can get this IDE driver working..." 
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Posted Thu Oct 6, 2011 8:11 AM
Hmm, looks like the ICP TermiCette was a real storage product, but I can't find any info about it beyond a couple of Google hits, one mentioning a users manual, and one mentioning it being used to load a program for something related to cigarette smoke and baboons.
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Posted Thu Oct 6, 2011 9:09 AM
It probably sounds similiar to Atari I/O becuase the Atari drive mechanisms of the 810 were outsourced to other drive manufacturers (like Taxan) who existed before Atari, and naturally their drives and I/O sound similiar. The tech was in it's infancy, so few different ways existed in transfer protocols, tape, disk, other, it all sounds the same.
Edited by Gunstar, Thu Oct 6, 2011 9:12 AM.
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